All of the public schools of Williamsport held special exercises yesterday in memory of George Washington. As last Tuesday, Washington’s Birthday was a legal holiday, there was no school sessions, so it was decided to postpone the celebration until yesterday. Some of the schools made special preparations for the event and many of the rooms
The opening ceremonies of a week-long Negro History Week observance, which is conducted nationwide, were held yesterday afternoon before a large congregation at the Shiloh Baptist Church. Jesse O’ Thomas, a negro staff assistant in the war savings department of the U.S. Treasury in Washington, was the featured speaker of the program that included Mayor
J. Walton Bowman prominent businessman and sportsman of Williamsport died suddenly of a heart attack about 5:30 o’clock last night while driving his automobile towards the city on the Montoursville Road. He was returning from a trip to Wilkes-Barre when his automobile skidded across the highway and into an embankment. It is believed the shock
The installation of a closed-circuit video television system and learning research center are being planned at Lock Haven State College. The rising enrollment in teacher education has made it virtually impossible for all prospective elementary school teachers to have direct experience with children in the campus laboratory school. It is felt that the installation of
A pair of bowlegs, which carry the legs of Henry Brewer of 430 Erie Avenue, aged sixteen appeared to get him into a peck of trouble which may end in his being sent to the reformatory. Brewer was charged before Judge Whitehead in juvenile court with having stolen papers off the porches on Elmira Street.
If any graduates of the Williamsport High School Class of 1914, are beginning to feel their age a bit, they will have a bond of sympathy with a contemporary—the 43-year-old main building of the W.H.S. Although considered one of the sturdiest structures in the Williamsport school system, the sprawling yellow brick building is not as
